NFS Contracts in London

Network File System (NFS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring NFS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NFS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 368 476
Rank change year-on-year +20 +108 +47
Contract jobs citing NFS 5 23 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.040% 0.13% 0.063%
As % of the System Software category 0.36% 1.29% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 13 12
10th Percentile - - £350
25th Percentile - £281 £574
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £300 £585
Median % change year-on-year +123.33% -48.72% -4.49%
75th Percentile - £388 £625
90th Percentile - £558 £636
England median daily rate £550 £405 £583
% change year-on-year +35.80% -30.53% +2.28%

All System Software Skills
London

NFS falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,384 1,777 3,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.03% 9.97% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 973 1,262 2,297
10th Percentile £300 £213 £250
25th Percentile £438 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +2.22%
75th Percentile £671 £615 £688
90th Percentile £800 £719 £775
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 35 42
10th Percentile £22.64 £17.23 £15.73
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.50 £22.85
Median hourly rate £28.41 £22.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.27% -50.00% +83.67%
75th Percentile £35.75 £25.00 £73.63
90th Percentile £91.50 £48.89 £85.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing NFS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for NFS in London

NFS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NFS in London.

Daily rate trend for NFS in London

NFS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NFS in London.

Hourly rate trend for NFS in London

NFS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NFS within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London 0 1 £670 +74.03%
NFS
England

NFS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (20.00%) FTP
2 1 (20.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (20.00%) NAS
2 1 (20.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Subversion
1 3 (60.00%) TeamCity
2 2 (40.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Administrator
2 3 (60.00%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Data Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Informatica Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Clustering
2 2 (40.00%) Replication
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (20.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Solaris
3 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Unix
4 1 (20.00%) Windows
4 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (80.00%) High Availability
2 3 (60.00%) API Integration
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Data Security
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Kernel Tuning
2 3 (60.00%) Security Hardening
3 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (20.00%) Data Lineage
4 1 (20.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Scorecard
4 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bash
1 3 (60.00%) Perl
1 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) Veritas File System
2 3 (60.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) QRadar
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (20.00%) Control-M
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Netcool
2 1 (20.00%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (20.00%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) CyberArk
2 3 (60.00%) Qualys
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (60.00%) SaltStack
2 3 (60.00%) Splunk
3 1 (20.00%) BMC
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) EMC
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) IBM
3 1 (20.00%) Informatica
3 1 (20.00%) McAfee
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) Symantec